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Catholic Zionism

Gavin D'Costa

In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. Lumen Gentium had done the same the year before, concurring with...

A New Zionism

Gavin D'Costa

God’s Country: Christian Zionism in Americaby samuel goldmanpenn, 248 pages, $34.95 The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land edited by gerald r. mcdermott ivp academic,...

Remembering John Hick

Gavin D'Costa

Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds, “There is no salvation outside the Church.” He argued that Catholics officially...